Flora of North America species comparison

1–3, erect, reddish brown, simple (leafy), glabrous or glabrate.

1–5, erect, whitish gray, densely tomentose.

basal (in rosettes, petiolate) and cauline, bicolor (white and green);

blades ovate, 3–7(–20) × 2–4(–6) cm, 2–3-pinnately-lobed (lobes elliptic, 2–6 mm wide; cauline sessile, smaller), faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous or glabrescent (adaxial), glandular.

mostly basal (cauline 1–4), greenish to whitish green;

blades (basal) 1–4.5 × 0.6–1.5 cm, 1–2-ternately to palmately lobed (flowering-stem blades 3-lobed), faces sparsely hairy.

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

campanulate or hemispheric, 3.5–6 × 6–11 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 9–10;

bisexual 20–30;

corollas yellow or reddish black, 2–3 mm, sometimes glandular.

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

lanceolate (margins brown), pilose.

(nodding, peduncles 0 or 2) in paniculiform to racemiform arrays 10–35 × 2–4 cm (often 1-sided).

(2–20, peduncles 0 or to 25 mm) in subcapitate to capitate arrays 2–3 × 2–3 cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm, (apices flattened) glabrous.